Parked Domains Problem

[laura_c]

Hi All,

 

Looking for a little help, please. I thought I could solve this on my own but everything I have tried has created problems and had to be reversed out.

 

My site is www.lembrassa.com, but to protect the name and in case of mistypes I also have registered a number of domain names which are variations e.g. www.lembrassa.net, www.lembrassa.org, www.lembrasa.com, etc.. I have had all these variations parked on to the main domain name.

 

I noticed recently that Google has started listing some of these variations in its search results. I have no idea why, since I don't mention these alternative domain names anywhere on the site. So my first question is how/why is Google listing these? And how do I prevent that happening?

 

In the meantime, and to avoid confusion for the customer if they chose one of the alternative domain names - say www.lembrasa.com - I wanted them to still see the main domain name in the address bar. I thought I could do this easily using a "rewritecond" and "rewriterule" in the .htaccess file, but although I have tried several variations I can't get this right. Can anyone help with how I can achieve this, please?

 

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

 

Laura

[TCH-Dick]

Just add these two lines

 

>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.lembrassa\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lembrassa.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[laura_c]

Just add these two lines

 

>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.lembrassa\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lembrassa.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Excellent, Dick. Many thanks - that has fixed so that people always see the the main domain name in the address bar now.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how/why Google is picking up the alternative (parked) domain names and how I stop that happening?

 

Thanks,

 

Laura